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Elgin, Ill. - The Auxiliary of Advocate Sherman Hospital recently awarded five $1,500 scholarships for the upcoming school year. This year's winners included Jacobs High School (Algonquin) graduates Eraj Din and Alaina Dunn, Bartlett High School graduate Isha Patel, Streamwood High School graduate Alejandra Pineda, and Hampshire High School graduate Katelyn Schoedl. Din has had her scholarship renewed by the auxiliary each of the past three years. She is currently a fourth-year medical student majoring in pediatric-neonatal critical care at Benedictine University in Lisle. Dunn graduated from Jacobs High School at the top of her class and has been accepted into the...

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